Map of the ‘Verse (HTML5 Canvas Demo)
This animation shows the fictional universe from the TV series Firefly. It’s been created by Koen Hendrix.
About the animation
The planets and suns are rendered on a full-screen HTML5 Canvas. (If performance is slow, try making you browser window smaller.) Their names and 2D coordinates are stored in an XML file. Javascript/jQuery code reads the XML and transforms the 2d coordinates into a quasi-3D projection, and draws a scaled image (.gif and .png files) on the canvas for every solar body
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Huh. Now I can see why the Battle of Serenity Valley (on Haven) was such a defeat for the Browncoats, and effectively ended the War: it’s the natural choke point between the Georgia planets and the White Sun Core Worlds.
Neat!